Chapter I
Early Conditions in Gaul
Chapter II
Julius Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul
Lutetia
Chapter III
Birth of Christianity
Its Dissemination
Its Espousal by the Roman Empire
Hunnish Invasion
Chapter IV
The Frank in Gaul
Clovis
Rois-Fainéants
Charles Martel
Mahometanism
Pepin Seizes the Crown
Chapter V
Charlemagne
Holy Roman Empire
Treaty of Verdun
Chapter VI
Invasions by Northmen
Normandy Given to Invaders
Feudalism
Decline of Kingship
Ascendancy of the Church
Hugh Capet
“Truce of God”
William the Conqueror
Chapter VII
Social Structure of France
Free Cities
Their Creation and Enfranchisement
The Crusades
Philip Augustus
War with King John of England
Toulouse and the Albigensian War
Chapter VIII
Abelard
Louis IX.
End of Crusades
Philip III.
Philip IV. and Papacy
Creation of States-General
Popes at Avignon
Knights Templar Exterminated
Change in Succession